Swissrail

We live in primitive and paranoid times!

He is DEFINITELY extracting the kidney juice!

And she never thought that stick in the middle of the car with 1,2,3,4,5,6 on it, was in any way significant?

I've seen a new one listed at £899 so maybe this isn't as bad as it looks. It's still not value for money though.

The description says, "Fantastic layout - great condition - great value". The first two parts of that may be true, but at £4,900, the third definitely isn't, locos and rolling stock notwithstanding.

That's opportunistic bandwagon jumping of the worst sort.

The TMC pop up ad that I'm getting when I open this thread is now saying "pre-owned and second hand wanted". Can someone please explain the conceptual difference between pre-owned and second hand, because I'm damned if I can!?

That thing's like a nightmare from a Tim Burton movie!

If I bought it after taking weight = motor to be true, I believe the next stage would be incorrect = refund!

I messaged the good Bob regarding his GW Metro tank listing: "You say this model is untested. I would say it couldn't be tested as it has no motor or gears in it. That being the case you should maybe revise the asking price." His somewhat surprising response: "Hence why I’ve listed it as untested sold as shown , as for the price I’ve put the option for buyers to make offers. " He still doesn't seem to understand the concept of testing in this context and if I was going to make an offer for an unpowered loco, it would be nowhere near £500.

This seller is well named. He's a comedian!

Fools and money come to mind. Dropping £90 on that pile of poo is evidence of madness in the truest sense of the word

Available at the local church bring-and-buy for a fiver! A tenner if you're feeling charitable.

That first example's window frames look as if they've been painted by a blindfolded person wielding a loo brush dipped in Dulux!

The Leichstahl restaurant is on hold for the moment...again...as I noticed that my transfer sheet only had two number panels when I should've drawn four. I'm waiting for Steve at Railtec to do me a spare pair. In the meantime I decided to get underway with something else: the service/bar car for the Reisebüro Mittelthurgau's 1980s observation car train... I have the five Roco observation cars, beautiful things they are too, but the service and bar car isn't made by anyone so I decided to create it to give me the correct six car formation. It's the third vehicle back from the loco in this picture. Here's another shot of it... Finding pictures of it in its RMT guise was very difficult and this and one or two other distance shots are all I have of it in this form. After a lot of research and conferring with people on the German Railways forum, it transpired that this was a modification of a DSG BR4ymg-52 speiseraum. This Roco model isn't available except as a three car set (45920) together with a 1st/2nd class Schnellzugwagen AB4bm-63 and a 2nd class Schnellzugwagen B4üm-63 and it took me a long time to find one. When I did finally track a set down on Ebay, it was in unopened mint condition and only cost me about £70, a real bargain. It still exists as the service car of the Rheingold tourist train but it's been modified again and has lost five of its windows on one side... This photo, however, gives me a great view of the grille that took the place of one of the windows when a diesel generator was installed in the coach. Using the GIMP software has enabled me to get a broadside view that I can use to get the dimensions so I can build it. The first thing I'll need to do is strip the DB green and all the lettering from it (heartbreaking I know as it's a lovely vehicle as is), create that grille and the exhaust ports on the roof, and then repaint it in RAL 3004 carmine red and RAL 1001 beige. I have already drawn the lettering and Mittelthurgau crest and both have since been printed up beautifully by Steve at Railtec.

It is indeed. The dip is duck brain purée infused with tobacco! 🤢

Chips, whips, trains and dips.

This guy seems to think the word 'rare' attached to a listing justifies a ten-fold increase over a normal price. EDIT: I've also messaged him to ask why a Hormby train set costing nearly four grand has a £500 postage charge attached to it, all the more so since he has an Eminem housebrick (?)... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333850351684?hash=item4dbb081844:g:YmUAAOSwVxtbK43o which will weigh potentially more than a loco and three coaches, has postage set at £9.50! I can't wait to hear his answer!

GOOD GOD!!! THAT'S GENUINE EBAY MADNESS!

I contacted this seller to tell him he had a Minitrix Britannia since he didn't seem to know. He took that as interest and replied with: "Hi, please feel free to make me an offer bearing in mind I paid over £20 each for the wagons. Regards...." I sincerely doubt the truth of that statement.

As far as I recall, the TOPS class numbers were introduced in 1968 but the five digit numbering didn't start to appear on locomotives until 1972.

That's right. The engine classifications were as follows... Type 1: 800 - 1,000 hp Type 2: 1001 - 1499 hp Type 3: 1,500 – 1,999 hp Type 4: 2,000 – 2,999 hp Type 5: 3,000 hp and above

Absolutely. I forgot about the Western Region's typically individual approach! 😉

I did N gauge when I was a teenager and this, the famed Peco Jubilee, was something I always hankered after but never owned. Seeing it now, it doesn't look that special and I certainly wouldn't part with £170 for it, wagons or no and besides, container flats are hardly approriate for a Jubilee in LMS colurs. This Britannia... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204245326833?hash=item2f8df85bf1:g:b-4AAOSwwhZj7W-5 is hardly "like new" and looks to me to be a pretty tired Minitrix offering. The modern image hoppers again, pretty pointless and out of period.

Thanks for that Mr Wolf. You're right, it was my mistake and I've now changed it. I've never really discovered if the Dxxxx numbering had any actual logic to it. It wasn't by type, and class numbers hadn't been thought of. It seems to have been largely random. For instance the Brush Type 4s (Class 47) which were built in 1962, were in the D1500 -1900 series and the later add ons in about 1968 were in the D1100 series!